The US is seeing more campaigns to ‘protect’ children by barring controversial books. But research shows children’s reading experiences are complex and unpredictable, explains a literature professor.
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With the rise of streaming platforms, Australian television can reach a global audience – but what will that audience be seeing?
Wits University Press is one of only 15 active university publishers in Africa – crucial for scholarship about the continent.
It’s pretty common to find people who are apathetic about their data being harvested and funnelled into unknown corners. But that’s usually because they don’t know what’s at stake.
For more than a decade, the Russian government has been putting teeth into its doctrine of ‘digital sovereignty’ by steadily increasing censorship of content and control over internet access.
In Russia, a draconian censorship regime makes open dissent impossible. But people are finding ingenious ways to express their opposition to the war in Ukraine.
What happens when a writer asks us to consider the perspective of the perpetrator rather than the victim?
Can social media posts sustain Russia’s endangered dissident cultures?
Margaret Atwood’s new fireproof copy of The Handmaid’s Tale protests book banning – and burning. The Venn diagram of those who burn books and those who read them is typically two separate circles.
A free speech expert defines censorship and applies that lesson to current political struggles in the US to ban books from public schools and libraries.
The west underestimates the power of Russian-state television, says an expert.
A scholar compares the debates over banning books in school today to a similar clash of ideas that took place during the Reagan era.
Criminal libel and seditious libel laws have existed under both military and constitutional rule in Ghana.
Struggles to uphold free speech throughout the centuries teach us that we should never take it for granted.
By the standards of the day, Ulysses was extremely sexually explicit.
By shutting off internet access completely, the government of Kazakhstan was able to silence dissent, hinder protesters’ coordination and keep the populace in the dark.
It took nearly two years for the Royal Navy to tell the story of the heroic voyage of the crippled submarine HMS Triumph.
Pronouncements made by the Chinese government often cloak a hidden agenda.
A moral panic fanned by the tabloid press led to crusaders seeking legislation to regulate the home video industry and a slew of low-budget horror films.
Governments could use dubbing to censor ideas they didn’t like or insert messages in line with their propaganda.
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Principal of South College, Durham University
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Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, University of Florida
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Sessional Academic, children's literature and creative writing, Victoria University
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